★Zara's POV★
"This is becoming just too hard for me to bear these days!" 
"These people are just going to kill me with work one day"
I said as I collapsed on the floor breathing heavily.
Am so weak now, I have been mopping all the rooms in this house since morning and this is 1:00 pm, and am still working!
Just imagine. and I'm a human, not a machine, all this because my mum is down?
This world is full of evil! my mum landed in sick bed just months ago, and inside the first month of being ill, a sack letter was sent to us that she has been sacked. I couldn't imagine that! A company she sacrificed all she has to make sure it is moving forward and they forgot all that she has done for them easily!
Am even talking about them? I mean look at me, just look at the way am being treated by the one that was supposed to take care of me and my mum, Aunty Kate forgot all my mum has done for her.
My mum is sick since about a few months ago now and she was still at home, she is supposed to be at the hospital by now but this woman can't afford to help, I have to work for her from morning till night before she would give me some money to get something that I and my mum will eat.
So many thoughts going through my mind right now, I just wish there is any way I could end this misery once and for all. And I seriously don't know why Kate changed, this wasn't her before.
I don't know what's happening, the world just turned its back on me and my precious mum.
"Zara! Why are you sitting on the floor instead of working? do you want my mum to come and yell at you!?"
Tina who just stepped out of her room refers to me when she saw me sitting on the floor weakened.
While I Just placed my hand on my jaw looking at her as tears rolled down from my eyes.
"Come on I understand that you have been working since morning and you deserve to rest" Tina as she reached out to me and looks into my eyes.
"I know my mum always overworks you, but you have to continue now before she comes in here and meets you like this!" She said while I didn't interject I was only looking at her.
"Come on! come on!" Tina said as she tries to grab my hand and drag me up.
"Don't touch! me" I yelled at her making her stare at me surprised.
"Are you actually referring to me?" She asked and I nods.
"Yes!? stop acting like you care while you don't" I yelled at her as I managed to get up from the floor, though I was having a little bit of waist pain.
"You know I do care!" Tina said with a loud voice"No! you don't!" I interrupted immediately.
"I stay here cleaning the house! working and working! just day and night! why do you just stay inside eat and drink the food that I cooked!" "Would I blame you, it is your home!" I said in tears.
"And I keep suffering! you do nothing to assist me! you obviously love what your mum is doing to me stop pretending!" I yelled at her as she hugs me with tears.
"No no no, stop it, please! I do care for you just that my mum is always stopping me from doing what's right and trust me I have no other choice than to obey her" She whispered to me.
"No! your mum is not stopping you but you are stopping yourself from doing what's right! because I have never seen you tried!" I said with tears streaming down my face.
"You know what? it's fine! I'm just going to assist you I know that's all you want!" She said as she grabs my hand and drags me to the coach.
"Please sit down," she said as she pushed me down without waiting for me to seat on my own.
So I sat looking at her surprised looking forward to knowing what she is trying to do.
"You are hungry right?" she asked and damn it I was so hungry, like seriously I haven't eaten since morning.
"You should know!" I responded with a low voice and she left the parlor, within a few minutes, she returned with a plate of rice prepared deliciously with chicken.
Seeing her I stood up from my seat surprisingly looking at her. She is taking a very big risk for me, most especially me this will affect me bitterly.
"Tina what the hell are you doing!? I..." I was trying to say but she shut me up putting her index finger on top of my mouth.
"Shhhh!!" She whispered to me as she hand over the plate of food. "Just seat and eat quickly so that my mum will not come back and meet you with it"
"Don't worry about your work, I will be doing that for you till you are done eating, please be fast!" She said with a sluggish voice.
She started helping me out by cleaning and mopping the floor while I was still staring at her in surprise with the plate of food in my hand.
Yes, I wanted her to help me but come on not up to this level!
"Zara! Are you still staring at me instead to eat!? my mum will be back very soon please eat and be fast with it!" She pleaded.
And then I sat down as I realized that she is right, I have to eat quickly before that woman comes back.
If she dares meet me like this, I can't even predict what will happen, only God knows!
So I took my spoon and was about to take just a spoonful of the rice the door opened! and the expected woman comes in just to find me eating while sitting on the couch and her daughter doing the work I was supposed to be working.
I kept staring at her seized in shock and so as Tina was looking at her mum too.
And Aunty Kate was down in surprise looking at me.
"Like seriously? so..." she said while stepping inside with a handbag on her shoulder.
I was already shaking in fear as I slowly keep down the plate of rice in my hand.
"How manage you made my daughter the house help, and you sit down there enjoying my food! and then my daughter as slave right!?" She asked and I was still so afraid to speak.
"Am..." I was about to start apologizing as I go down on my knees but Tina's voice came up just so fast.
"No Mum, this is not actually the way you are taking it! come on she has been working since morning even without food" 
"I just came out from my room just a few minutes ago just to see her collapsed on the floor, she has not eaten since morning so I have to get her some food to eat" Tina keep saying on my behalf of me while her mum folds her hand looking at her as she keeps talking.
"She was really hungry, that she even sat down on the floor crying, so I have to give her food, don't bother about me working, chose to," Tina said as she looks at me with a pitiful face.
"Mum please just have mercy on her, let her rest a bit even if it is just for today, moreover more reason I have to help her, the work is too much, she has been working without rest since morning..." she was still saying and her mum interrupted with her thunderous voice.
"Will you keep your mouth shut? blah blah! the work I gave to her is too much as if she doesn't eat!" She yelled as I faces the floor, I was too scared to look at her face.
"Yes mum, she did not even eat" Tina responded flapping her shoulder "Shut up! And go inside your room right now!" she yelled at Tina who stared at me in pity, knowing that I'm really in deep trouble right now.
She waved her head out of pity and keeps down the mop and left the parlor and it was just left with me and this woman of bitter life!
"Zara!" She called. "Yes...!" I said with a very low voice as I looks up to her face.
"Come!" She ordered while I become more scared because I knew she was going to torture me if I dare step close to her. "Yes?" I said acted like I didn't hear what she said.
"Are you deaf? I said come!" She yelled at me and I rushed her without waiting for her to finish talking. Just immediately I was getting close to her she grabbed my ear.
"Ugh!!" I screamed in pain. "How dare you seat on my precious chair and even have the guts to test my meal! you are only to eat leftovers! Didn't I tell you that!?" She yelled at me as she keeps dragging my ear really hard.
"Oh yes! yes, ma! you did!" I said under pressure. "And yet you have the guts to eat a full plate of rice! oh, my gush! with a full lap of chicken!? aha!?" She yelled.
"Am very very sorry ma! And I promise it will never happen again!" I replied as my ear is already becoming as hot as hot water let me not even talk about the pain am feeling right now.
"Now listen to me! any day you ever dare! to try this again I will kill you with my bare hands!" She said as she finally pushed me out of her hands. And I collapsed on the floor holding my ear with my right hand feeling a deep pain.
"What's wrong with this thing? will you get the hell up from the floor!" She yelled at me as I managed to get up from the floor immediately. "Now get back to work, I wouldn't punish you now but trust me, your punishment awaits you later at the night!"
"Now get back to work!" She shouted and I quickly rushed to the mop and picked it up immediately and started cleaning. "Just make sure everywhere is clean and I wouldn't want to meet any dirt anywhere around this house!" She said and left to her room.
Then I collapsed on the floor immediately after she left, my ear is damm on fire! am feeling a lot of pain in my ear.
She still says my punishment awaits me at night? as if my ear which she dragged is not punishment, but only Almighty knows what she still has in mind.  
Though am still hungry I need to eat I said as I managed to get up from the floor as my body is already shaking, I wanted to eat the food since I am already being tortured for it but damn it she took the meal away.
Tears rolled down from my eyes, I almost believe that this is where I ends.
"I just hope I would be able to survive it Almighty! This condition is just too much for me to overcome!" I said and more tears roll down from my eyes.
Well, I have to begin work before she returns. So I stood up and continue cleaning even as much as my ear pains me I have to manage even without food.
Maybe after she gives me the little money she use to give me at the end of the day I'll be able to buy medicine for myself and as well buy for my sick mum and buy food too.
★Later That Night★
So Aunty Kate and Tina were at the parlor with their guest, I don't even know her but I saw her packing in with her load in the evening. Looking at her I'm very sure she has come to stay.
Anyways that's not why am here so I head straight to Kate who is breastfeeding her little baby David.
"Umm, please am ready to go now," I said to her as I stared at Tina who is already looking at me.
"Oh I have already prepared something.... just take that plate of food on top of that table and go," she said. while I stare at her somehow. She is supposed to give me money not food, but anyways I reached out to the plate on top of the table and opened it.
Gush you couldn't believe what I saw? like was this food made for a pig or for a human being to eat? all the food inside this plate is not even leftover anymore but rotten food. I looked up at her with a misunderstood look on my face.
"Sorry, but what was this supposed to mean? am sorry to say but you are supposed to give me money! My mum is sick! I have to get some drugs for her while going home! please!" I started begging immediately because I already knew that this must be the punishment she is talking about.
"Oh, you want money?" She asked and I nodded as I stares at the woman sitting beside her who is already looking at me with her disgusting face, her look doesn't seem clear but I don't care anyways not here for her.
"Come take money!" she said as she bring out a bundle of money from her handbag handing it over to me. "Oh thank you so much!" I said emotionally as I tried to take it and she slapped me "What...!!! have I done...?!" I asked with a low voice as I moved backward.
"Fool! Take that food! and leave my house!" She yelled at me while tears drops down my face.
She only brought out that money to mock me with it, not that she doesn't have it but just wants to wicked me, Actually I could have just left even without taking this pig food but if I leave like that, what will my mum eat when I get home? All her hope is on me!
So looking at Aunty Kate for a while with my eyes filled with tears, I took the plate of waste, I wouldn't call it food, I took it and began heading home.